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The cooling fan in the PSU of my desktop PC has gone on the fritz, causing the PC to shut down as the PSU overheats. Being a tinkerer and tending towards the green side, I thought I'd buy and fit a replacement 40mm fan from eBay, rather than shelling out for a whole new PSU. (Yes, I know there are some serious capacitors in PSU's - I'll wear rubber gloves)

I found some from China at £1 or less, with free postage. I don't know how they can make money on these, but that's their problem, but I have splashed out £1.75 to get one from the UK

I also found this one[^] - £999.85, though they do offer free postage as well. At that price I would want it personally delivered by a scantily clad maiden!

Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'HOK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DDEthel CrudacreI cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - TrollslayerHave a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

It is a bit more complicated. Let's say Company 1 and 2 are in the same holding.Company 1, in Bahamas, buys a 1€ fan and sells it for 1000€. They make a 999€ profit, which is not taxed (remember, Bahamas).Company 2, in France, buys a 1000€ fan, which it can resell for, let's say, 5€. This company makes a 995€ loss, on which it does not pay taxes.The holding, on this transaction, makes a -1-1000+1000+5 = 4€ tax-free profit. Scale that to 1 million fans, and you have made a 4 million profit without paying any tax.

This is how tax havens work.

~RaGE();

I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian GrausDo not feed the troll ! - Common proverb

Surely that has to be an error? if you Google the fan you can get it for as little as £5.00 from Amazon

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Sorry but for legal reasons FaceBook has chosen to not be unavailable in your country.

Please switch to a different country or consider upgrading your government.

(Because ultimately I suspect FaceBook, google etc would block access to their sites by French users before setting a precedent of paying a ridiculous tax like this. If France keeps this up they'll find themselves shut off to the modern world as companies refuse to talk to them anymore.)

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is SILENCE, the second is LISTENING, the third MEMORY, the forth, PRACTICE and the fifth is TEACHING others!

Quoting one of my sister-in-law's teachers; she went to an elementary school run by a fundamentalist Christian church. The teacher was actually commenting on some historical event where France was less than cooperative with the U.S.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. AdamsYou must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von BraunOnly two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein